1907 Scarce First Edition - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Alice Ross.
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(Description)
Author: CARROLL, Lewis. (Alice Ross, illustrator).
Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With illustration in colour by Alice Ross.
Publisher: Edinburgh, W.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, no date (1907). First Edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 6.5 " X 5 ".
Pages: 159 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original illustrated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. A rare find in any condition!
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, endpaper toning and rare light foxing or staining - as shown, name of a previous 1908 owner to the verso of the frontispiece - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the 5 wonderful full-page illustrations by Alice Ross.
Estimate: (Scarce with few other copies available worldwide).
The book: Scarce and attractive first edition of Alice Ross illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. A rare find in any condition!
The illustrator: Alice E Ross (fl.1886 - 1937), illustrator and painter, was active/lived in the United Kingdom.
The author: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem The Hunting of the Snark – all examples of the genre of literary nonsense.